Donation to Shelter Box
Donation to Shelter Box
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Liz Odell from ShelterBox came and spoke to the club at our April dinner meeting. The club voted to sponsor a shelter Box at a cost of just over £500.00. ShelterBox gives you the facility of tracking your box so that you can see where in the world it helps in any given emergency The Box Number that SI Cirencester and District donated to was: UK0067066 and it has been used in Nigeria to assist those affected by flooding. Here is a brief background on the Nigerian flooding: A ShelterBox Response Team (SRT) is delivering aid following devastating flooding which has consumed large swathes of Nigeria. Over a million people have been displaced in the African country where the worst flooding in 50 years has caused rivers to swell and forced families to flee their homes. The River Niger and its tributaries are amongst those now overflowing